The history of anti-Zionism in the U.S. Jewish community is as long as the history of Zionism itself. Today, anti-Zionist Jews are standing up against the institutions in our community that are supporting death and destruction in Gaza.
The genocide in Gaza is being committed in our name as Jews. Thus have a duty to organize as Jews against the Jewish Zionist institutions aiding and perpetuating the annihilation of the Palestinian people.
Understanding our own history as Jews leads us to speak out against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. We stand for the liberation of the Palestinian people because we have known what it is to not be free.
Anna Rajagopal was fired from her position with Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Language Project out of fear her anti-Zionist politics would alienate donors. Her story reveals the culture of fear within Jewish institutional life.
Jewish institutions reject those questioning the role of Zionism in Jewish life, but the organization Judaism On Our Own Terms is creating a space where young Jews do not have to choose between their Judaism and their sense of justice.
Jews Against White Supremacy seeks to educate and radically transform Jewish communities around the world while challenging settler colonialism and fighting for a free Palestine.
Linda Dittmar witnessed abuses of Palestinians during the Nakba as a girl in Israel. Now in her 80s, living in America she seeks to retrace the ways that Israelis suppressed the Nakba and replaced Palestinian life with a Zionist narrative.
An Israeli Magistrate Court judge extended the detention of left-wing anti-Zionist activist Jonathan Pollak following his arrest at a protest in the Palestinian village of Beita.
The case could indicate a significant escalation in the Netanyahu government’s crackdown on those who resist Israeli colonization.
The Israeli slide to religious fundamentalism and ultranationalism has made more people realize that many Jews oppose Zionism not out of “self-hate,” but because we believe in the equality of all human beings.
Former Google employee Ariel Koren says the company has “sustained a culture of silencing anti-Zionist Jews and creating toxic and unjust conditions for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim workers.”